 Bright:CLINICAL MEMOIRS ON ABDOMINAL TUMOURSRichard Bright (1789-1858) was one of the great physicians associated with Guy's Hospital, London, in the first half of the nineteenth century. Born in London, the young Bright studied at Edinburgh and Cambridge and traveled to Berlin and Vienna in pursuit of his medical education. London's College of Physicians granted him a license to practice in 1816; he became an assistant physician at Guy's four years later and spent two highly productive decades there.In 1827-1831, Bright published his Reports of Medical Cases, important volumes covering many diseases. In 1843, shortly after becoming ill, Bright retired from Guy's. The New Sydenham Society collected Dr. Bright's papers on abdominal tumors after his death and published them as CLINICAL MEMOIRS ON ABDOMINAL TUMOURS AND INTUMESCENCE (1860). It is this work that we now add to the Classics of Medicine Library. Bright's exceptional powers of observation and description make his clinical reports valuable. Among the original descriptions attributed to him are those for pancreatic diabetes, unilateral convulsions, and chronic nonsuppurative nephritis, or Bright's disease. Also an artist, he supplied the illustrations for some of his medical publications and for his books on travel. The editor of ABDOMINAL TUMOURS places Richard Bright in the same league as William Harvey, a judgment born out by his life and this classic work. Retail Price: $99.00 |
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